What does an SAP Consultant do?

[DrJRL]

Not massively helpful, there is about thirty seconds out of eight and a half minutes that is actually what she does. The interviewer should have worked harder to extract more information and to stop her waffling. If she worked for me I'd sack her for not knowing what it is she does ;)

[neatstatus]

Give specifics.

[mrshabkhan]

This is a dawn of India's supremacy over world. As Europe and Amerca's sun seems to be setting My Nation is emerging back again to rule the world.

How many nations did I invade to conquer the world. None! Peacefully us Indians have conquered the whole world throuigh our I.T. consultants, Now we are The nerve of the worlds I.T . -Shabbir Khan

RITNOA COM

[hdeeplive]

@mrshabkhan Jai ho! Well said

[agoud604]

total mumbojumbo!  Have a listen again and swap out SAP Consultant with cashier at McDonald's: take initiative, proactive, resolve customer issues, manage your time, learning opportunities, exposed to a dynamic demanding work environment, ability to adapt to a changing environment, solve problems, be flexible. What else is new lady? Either SAP Consultants just do mumbojumbo all day or "...makes IBM a great place to work for..." - nice english Chan

[ThamesOrIsis]

@PeterClayton, @JobsInPods, this podcast súcks so bad. It not only speaks novels about your pseudo-intelligence, but also proves once again that consulting jobs are not real work. That grad school chick you interviewed is like a zombie or something, rattling off wonderful slogans like there's no tomorrow. C'mon, you know she hasn't worked a day in her life. The stuff she described is not about lBM, it's about anycompany: nice people, supportive,bla-bla-bla. Brainwashed corporate À'mé'ríc'á!

[SatansSpatula]

I think IBM must base bonuses on the number of times you talk about how brilliant everyone at IBM is. Odd, since I've never been impressed by any of the IBM employees I've met.

[suzzette1980]

the person interviewed makes SAP sound like some sort of college sorority that you join to. Yes you travel, meet new people from different cultures.....but any job that requires to implement a new system offers that. Any plans to interview a real SAP specialist that can describe her/his job?

[25hilaryrice25]

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[supermanel1941a]

SAP Consultant with no business experience on any field and implementing SAP...what a danger ¡¡

It´s like fixing a car without having a clue about what a car is for....

It´s not strange to see anger clients because poor results.

Do the speaker knows how an invoice looks like?

[wuschelbeutel]

That sounded like an advertising filled with job interview buzzwords. IBM has the least unique workforce (not in terms of racial background but rather 'displayed personality'). What is it that you actually do and why is it valuable? Important questions are never addressed in this interview. Lame.

[dirtydonki]

SAP, like IBM is a dinosaur.

IBM have always made the butt ugliest PC's as well.

[hentaikiller]

The problem is not SAP.. its Enterprise Resource Planning.. Peoplesoft is out of business. Oracle is far to big for its own good

[FuzzyChicken29]

Its all business language mumbo jumbo.....WTF do they "ACTUALLY" do?!?

[nothingbandvideos]

@FuzzyChicken29 SAP is just a program to manage crap at offices...... do you handle it with biz experiences, you will have a good work....

[bjokkor]

@FuzzyChicken29 hehe true!

there's like 4 main types of sap consultants

a) business/sales consultant (trying to win projects at customers .. not knowing a lot about sap lol)

b) functional consultant ( translate customer demands to developers and Customize SAp(adjusting some parameters) )

c) developer consultant. (coding abap/java/.net/...)

d) system admin consultant. (keeping the servers/databases up etc.. )

This podcast is an example of a&b people.. blalbalblalba

[itcareerblog]

Love it or hate it, SAP is here to stay - 100,000+ customers and growing. It will be a while before all of them throw SAP away. Having been in SAP for over 10 years now, I fully agree it is complex both for the end user and the consultant. Once people get through this initial hurdle they will start appreciating the robustness of the system and its potential. SAP consultants still get paid a lot of money - don't let go of the opportunity if you get a chance to become one.

[Shizo211]

@itcareerblog but tell me how many freetime does a consultant have. In my point of view they don't have much of them.

I'm not critizising it. To tell the trueth I'm interested in working for sap after graduation. But I'm not sure about the job. I'm torn between Wirtschaftsinformatik (consultant or softwarecoding) and "IBAIT"

[britney01at]

Good English~

[dirtydonki]

Inglorious Boring Machines.

[enyawix]

What is SAP software? Can it help a small company with vpn branch offices? We dispatch PSTN phone and other low voltage technicians.

[arshia2008]

@enyawix it can, you would need SAP Business one.

[mattozx6rr]

@enyawix

I would not waste my time with sap personally. Been at it for a year and it is not productive or worth the time let alone the ongoing cost of maintenance you will occur.

[dante4d]

@erpselftraining If I'm not mistaken, here in Czech Republic, SAP consultants have one of the highest average salaries in whole country. I work as a consultant. My current experience is disgust actually. I'm quite an IT enthusiast (programmer, linux nerd, whatever...) and the computer incompetence in people I work with is shocking. Most of them don't have even the basic understanding of computers, good design, programming basics. It weird how companes pay so much for those lousy services...

[intuser123]

ridiculous ..self praise and ibm praise WTF

[therealviking]

Pathetic!

[paraglide01]

I have worked for Bosch Rexroth and we had a implementation of SAP, total costs 200 million euro's and we had 200 SAP consultants housed in a specially build temp office. It took them a year for the roll out world wide with 3 database warehouses on each continent. After all this money and effort spent on these fuckers and with a lot of frustration on the side of the poor people who were forced to work with the stupidest program ever SAP managed to lose all customer data with all the invoices .

[dante4d]

@paraglide01 I could tell the same stories. Implementing projects for millions of euros, then the thing gets thrown away or the company realizes it doesn't help them any. The company I work for now tries it's best to get rid of SAP products because they are a huge anchor dragging all the business down. Implementing anything in SAP systems is pain in the ass and the quality of code is ... like Microsoft products. Wors code I've seen so far...

[sandeep031]

does a charterad accountant has to do ERP course,..???

[saveka]

3 years in SAP are nothing ... but good interview , nice job. I will miss IBM .......

[daumar12]

it starts quite ok, but the second part is like reading from a paper... and she is still very much a junior .... with 3 years on SAP cons. only....

[ConfigERP]

Nice interview and career talk...

[CeoOfKFC]

Oracle R12 > SAP

[mattozx6rr]

I wish the company I work for would have gone with Oracle.

[swapnilarora143]

@mattozx6rr :

Request you to please fetch all the information before posting ur comment, if ur firm implemented SAP u might not to worry too hard for ur proper running of the business.. Thats wat SAP's power..

Or Else..

U are just another oracle guy, unaware of the SAP world..! (get well soon champ!!)

[MonstaMob]

SAP eats Oracle in all aspects. Oracle is useless shit for poor companies.

[aztirno]

agreed.

[dipo84]

@MonstaMob dont say that ... im an oracle consultant and it is a good job... they still control the market

[MonstaMob]

@dipo84 Oracle looses around 27 customers out of 30 to SAP, while SAP looses only 3 out of these 30 to Oracle. I don't think this should be called "controlling the market". Nevertheless in terms of business complexity SAP software brings there far more comfort to the customers in my opinion. You may have other opinions - I have no problem with that.

[MonstaMob]

@dipo84 BTW - Shouldn't you be saying "We still control the market" instead "They" if you're an Oracle Consultant? Could be a great though - why not.

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[9FORDIE9]

Will someone please tell me what SAP do!??!?!

[drogo13]

SAP is the secong bigest company for enterprise company, it starts making an ERP it means Enterprise resourcing planing... well I will use a quote consultants use to define SAP "Noone can understand GOD completly. Same is true about SAP." here you can make your imagine

[mattozx6rr]

(S)tops (A)ll (P)roduction!!!!!!!!!!

[swapnilarora143]

@mattozx6rr :

@mattozx6rr :

Request you to please fetch all the information before posting ur comment, if ur firm implemented SAP u might not to worry too hard for ur proper running of the business.. Thats wat SAP's power..

Or Else..

U are just another oracle guy, unaware of the SAP world..! (get well soon champ!!)

[mattozx6rr]

@swapnilarora143

Well considering it has been a year since I wrote that comment I would have to say I now have all the info I need to justify my previous comment. My company was bought out a little over a year ago by a world wide manufacturing giant in the tile field out of Italy. Considering a meeting was held a month ago and the owner flat out stated that we Will shut down SAP January 1st 2012 no matter what came as a huge relief.

[mattozx6rr]

@swapnilarora143

SAP is an overly complicated data base that generates reports and nothing more. Sick part is you damn near have to posses a degree in programming to figure out exactly what it is doing, why the hell they do it the way they do and how get it to do what you want. For the average person, which by the way is what most companies hire, SAp is a heartache at best and reason to go find another job at worst.

[mattozx6rr]

@swapnilarora143

I personally know that on January 1st 2012 I will have something more than the new years to celebrate. I will have my freedom back to be productive at work once more as the plug will FINALLY be pulled on SAP at our corporation. Need to find something for the owner as I will be extremely grateful for his wise decision to stop the money and frustration bleed in our company.

Good day sir!

[paraglide01]

@9FORDIE9

the anwser is very simple , SAP will ruin good companies.

[cyberplayer4u]

This has been very informative. I'm a budding consultant in the SAP practice for another fortune 500 company and many of Chan's comments echoes in our company culture and business environment. An IT consultant must really be prepared to be flexible, adaptable team player, fairly eloquent and customer focused to say the very least. The work within SAP is also very varied with endless opportunites. cheers.

[Neltron]

thanks

[topside4real]

Nice career talk...